Böhm’s Salzburg Figaro sets a standard for Mozart.

No other work written for the music theatre has been performed at the Salzburg Festival as often as Le Nozze di Figaro. Mozart’s opera buffa, this work of genius, was included in the programme of forty-six out of more than eighty festival summers; the more than 200 Salzburg performances included at least twelve different Figaro productions, and on every occasion only the best Mozart singers of the time were engaged.

Mozart’s Figaro performances in Salzburg were above all a task for great conductors, from Franz Schalk and Bruno Walter, Josef Krigs, Herbert von Karajan and Wilhelm Furtwängler to Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. It is, however, Karl Böhm, above all others, who deserves to be singled out, who over many years has had a formative influence on the musical image of this opera, from Vienna and Salzburg to Munich and New York.

To this day, Karl Böhm’s performances of Figaro and Cosi fan tutte remain a vivid memory, and his recordings have set a standard.

Cast:
- Il Conte di Almaviva: Ingvar Wixell
- La Contessa di Almaviva: Claire Watson
- Susanna: Reri Grist
- Cherubino: Edith Mathis
- Figaro: Walter Berry
- Basilio: David Thaw
- Bartolo: Zoltan Kelemen
- Marcellina: Margarethe Bence

Director: Günther Rennert
Set and Costume Design: Ludwig Heinrich

Live recording from the Salzburg Festival 1966.

Sound Format: PCM Mono
Picture Format: 4:3
DVD Format: 2 x DVD 9, NTSC
Menu Language: GB
Subtitle Languages: IT, GB, DE, FR, ES, Chinese
Running Time: 180 mins
FSK: 0
Region Code: 0
Worldwide available, excluding Japan